Thanks for posting. I’ve been waiting for the KDE version of Mint 17. I’m going to install it in a VM and test some stuff out. I’m thinking of trying to go with this as the “Easy” version for friends. The biggest problem with me switching from Fedora, is that from what I understand, there is no “Quanta” package, and I’ve been using that for years to do simple HTML editing.
VB is not same.. partition and make dual boot.. fraking perfect on my side so far (and I had biggest bug system... AMD with nVid cards)... Absolutely NO probs here...
Last I heard (and I may be wrong) was that Linus Torvalds threw in the towel with KDE when version 4 first came out and is using XFCE as his desktop. I mostly did the same since the early KDE4 versions were pretty rough, to put it kindly. Although it took several iterations, they have really produced what I consider to the premiere desktop environment -- bar none. It's slick, highly polished, customizable, solid as the proverbial rock, quite beautiful and contrary to the naysayers, not a resource pig. On those occasions when I have to work on a customer system equipped with Windows 8.1 or Ubuntu with Unity, they just feel so crude and constrained compared to what KDE4 has become. I think Linus or any other doubter needs to give it another look.
I hope this doesn't devolve into a desktop flamewar but, as a doubter myself and one who struggled with the near-beta quality of the earlier KDE4 releases, I've really come to enjoy and appreciate it.